Blood Into Wine is a documentary focusing on multi-platinum musician Maynard James Keenan and his winemaking mentor Eric Glomski as they toil against the naysayers and elements in their quest to make exquisite varieties of wine in the hostile deserts of Arizona. The ostensibly unlikely farmer Keenan, the lead singer of famous rock bands, moved to Arizona in 1995 and has since produced high quality wines through his labels Caduceus, Merkin, and AZ Stronghold. Also featuring appearances form supermodel and actress Mila Jovovich, the film is an inspiring and humorous look at a truly enthusiastic spirit of winemaking.
Cast: Maynard James Keenan, Eric Glomski, Milla Jovovich, Tim Heidecker
Directed by: Ryan Page, Christopher Pomerenke
Charlotte is a tender human being, having found her life’s fulfillment in a way that is strange enough to be hidden. She is married, has a son, and works in a hospital. When Charlotte’s husband Max finds out his wife’s secret passion, their marriage is put to a test, and she is sacked from the work at the hospital. Wishing to save their relationship and to flee from the ghosts of the past, Charlotte and Max embark on a exotically saturated voyage to India.
Cast: Sandra Hüller, Dragan Bakema, Sabine Timoteo, Rvan Brodie
Directed by: Nanouk Leopold
Nae, living in a small village in eastern Romania, receives a telegram from France announcing the death of his long lost uncle Luca. Nae and his mother embark on a journey to fulfil Luca’s last wish - to be buried in the cemetery of his Romanian hometown. At the house of the deceased, they meet a shaman, Luca’s friend Ata, who tells them that Luca’s fortune has been lost and the only thing left is an unusual coffin. Since the Romanian tradition requires the soul to retrace its life’s steps during the forty days of mourning, Luca’s soul chooses to inhabit Nae in order to return to its last resting place.
Cast: Adriana Trandafir, Áron Dimény, Elena Popa, Joseph Otteno
Directed by: Cornel Gheorghita
He fought in Afghanistan and went missing in action there. 21 years later he returns to Estonia to attend his father’s funeral. Estranged from the Western society and converted to Islam, his only bond to life there is the memory of his daughter, Angel, whose crying he believes he once, long ago, heard on the telephone. Ever since he has been writing letters to her into his dog-eared notebook. The town that used to be his home and where he begins to look for his daughter and his wife now feels like a ghostly and alien place. Slender young women dictate its life and rhythm, yet something has gone hopelessly astray in their lives. When the man whom they thought for years to be dead arrives, the women see him as someone who could resolve their troubles.
Cast: Tõnu Oja, Tiina Tauraite, Ragne Pekarev, Mirtel Pohla, Katariina Lauk
Directed by Sulev Keedus
Scriptwriter: Sulev Keedus
The short film compilation has been created by eight young and talented Ukrainian directors, showing the capital Kiev in a way unknown to the most of the outsiders – with the fresh view of the young. Witty, ordinary and less ordinary stories, simple and complicated tales about the life in the city, characterized by a style similar to the earlier Paris, I Love You and New York, I Love You. Several generations are featured in the course of eight films - from a puppy love to nostalgic feelings of the older generation. For most of the Lovers in Kiev directors these are debut films and a great chance to show them on the big screen.
Directed by Ada Rogovtseva, Dasha Astafeva, Grigoriy Kalinin, Artem Semakin, Alexandr Yatsenko, Ivan Dorn, Ilya Isaev
Don Alfonso, a victim of an extortion scheme, fearfully flees his home, accompanied only by his marimba. When he loses his job as a musician due to a dwindling interest in marimba music, he decides to take drastic measures and begins to fuse traditional marimba music with heavy metal. Together with his godson Chiquilin, a street-wise kid hooked on sniffing glue, and Blacko, a medical doctor and ex-Satan-worshiper turned fundamentalist-Orthodox-Jew-born-again Christian, the trio comes together as Marimbas del Infierno, playing a new style of music never imagined nor heard before.
Lomās: Alfonso Tunche, Roberto González Arévalo, Víctor Hugo Monterroso
Režisors: Julio Hernández Cordón
Scenārists: Julio Hernández Cordón
Punay was born with wounds on her feet so she has never been able to walk. Her brother, Angkarang, carrying her in a hammock, is always on his way, searching for a healer who can cure Punay. In a kind of a peculiar road movie story, there are different people they meet along the way – a woman looking for her husband, a fisherman who has lost his boat and a young man who is searching for himself. The first Palawan indigenous film in the world is full of symbolically mystic transformances. Busong is the indigenous Palawan concept of fate or instant karma, when nature reacts instantly to a man's disrespect towards nature or other men.
Cast: Alessandra de Rossi, Dax Alejandro, Clifford Banagale
Directed by: Auraeus Solito
After finishing studies in the US, Ananda returns home to Thailand, unsure of what to do with his life next. He tries his hand in acting in a film by a famous director. On a small seaside village film set, he is visited by his girlfriend and course mate Zoe. However, their relationship is fraught with something unusual and soon again she leaves. Some time later, Ananda meets May. It is difficult for him to find a grip in the world between different languages, cultures, and classes of society. Ananda visits his childhood town, but does not recognize it any more. Estrangement soon enters his relationship with others.
Cast: Ananda Everingham, Cerise Leang, Sajee Apiwong
Directed by Aditya Assarat
Scriptwriter: Aditya Assarat
A simple story told on the backdrop of Thai post-rock soundtrack – a tale of ambivalent feelings between an embittered disabled man and his caretaker. Ake is paralyzed from the waist down following an accident. Pun is his male nurse, who, despite Ake’s resistance, continues to take care of him with candid affection. The mellow and meditative film, taking unexpected visual turns, will be a delight to those who love films with a satisfying aftertaste longing quite a while after leaving the cinema.
Cast: Phakpoom Surapongsanuruk, Arkaney Cherkham, Paramej Noieam, Anchana Ponpitakthepkij
Directed by Anocha Suwichakornpong
Scriptwriter: Anocha Suwichakornpong
One of the most impressive films in the history of Latvian documentary cinema – a monumental film, shot by four different crews in the whole Soviet Union under the supervision of director Uldis Brauns. Referencing the number of inhabitants of the massive country in its title, the film contrastingly captures the most important moments in the life of an individual as well as the society, seeking the personal and the intimate as well as scope and the sensational in the scenes of the mass events.
Directed by: Uldis Brauns
After 25 years of working at the Cinemateca Uruguaya film archive, Jorge (real-life Uruguayan critic Jorge Jellinek), still finds inspiration in caring for the films and audiences that grace the seats and screen of his beloved arthouse cinema. But when dwindling attendance and diminishing support force the theater to close its doors, Jorge, who has never worked anywhere else except in film, loses his job. Once faced with unemployment, the line between reality and fantasy becomes blurred.
Cast: Jorge Jellinek, Manuel Martínez Carril, Paola Venditto
Directed by: Federico Veiro
Legend has it that director Raoul Ruiz once asked Marcello Mastroianni, which role he would like to play, and the actor responded – a professor, a tramp and a servant. But the film "Three Lives and Only One Death" is not that simple as the initial impression of three separate stories disappears when the previous story characters randomly start to appear in the next story. Raoul Ruiz with distinguishing ease merges the stories and Marcello Mastroianni in his penultimate role performs magnificently.
Cast: Marcello Mastroianni, Anna Galiena, Marisa Paredes
Directed by: Raoul Ruiz